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NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York City that the Justice Department has forced Madison Square Garden and other sports arenas to remove cigarette advertisements from locations where they can be seen by television camera's broadcasting sports events from those arenas. Cigarette advertising on television has been banned for the last 24 years.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Ho Chi Minh City on the rememberances of those Vietnamese who fought in support of the communists. And while many of them celebrated their country's independance in 1975, they still say they're not entirely satisfied with the direction their country's taken in the last 20 years.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports from Oklahoma City on how several businesses near the area of last week's blast have been affected by the tragedy...and their efforts to once-again open their doors to customers.

KEITH FOURNIER, Head of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). The ACLJ helped draft the Christian Coalition's Contract with the American Family. The contract, which has been a controversial topic on Capitol Hill, calls on Congress to allow prayer and religious displays in public places, curb pornography, restrict abortion, give tax relief to families, get tough with criminals, promote school choice and end taxpayer funding of the arts. Activist and preacher JIM WALLIS is the editor of Sojourners magazine . Wallis and other Protestant and Catholic officials have started a new coalition "Cry for Renewal." It's their alternative to the conservative agenda of the Christian Coalition. WALLIS is also the author of the book, The Soul of Politics (The New Press/Orbis

SIMON/BIRMINGHAM BOMBING: SCOTT SIMON GOES BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, AND VISITS THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH WHICH WAS BOMBED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1963. HE TALKS TO THE PERSON WHOSE TESTIMONY HELPED CONVICT ONE OF THE PERPETRATORS AND EXAMINES WHY NO FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS TOOK PLACE. (BOOK: LONG TIME COMING - AN INSIDER'S STORY OF THE BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING THAT ROCKED THE WORLD, WRITTEN BY ELIZABETH H. COBBS/PETRIC J. SMITH AND PUBLISHED BY CRANE HILL - BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA)

Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1995. non-fiction) Mailer says we must ask "Who was Oswald?" as a prelude to asking "Who killed JFK?". The book profiles Lee Harvey Oswald's life.... Mailer published his first book in 1948. The Naked and the Dead Oswald's Tale... is Mailer's 28th book. In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He is co-founder of The Village Voice and was president of AMERICAN PEN from 1984 to 1986.

NPR's John Burnett reports on how former President George Bush's resignation from the NRA has affected other members of the organization. This past week, Bush wrote a letter of resignation from the group saying he was offended by comments from one NRA leader who referred to federal agents as "jack-booted thugs" and compared them to Nazis. NRA members have had a variety of reactions to Bush's move with some agreeing that the rifle association has gone too far while others just say "good riddance" to the former president.

ECONOMY: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FORTUNE MAGAZINE COLUMNIST JOE NOCERA ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEK THAT THE U.S. WILL, AGAIN, IMPLIMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST JAPAN, THIS TIME AGAINST LUXURY CARS, IN RETALIATION FOR ALLEGEDLY UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON HOW OKLAHOMANS ARE COPING WITH THE AFTERMATH THE THE BOMBIMG ON APRIL 19TH, AND HOW THAT TRAGEDY MAY HELP CHANGE OLD OKLAHOMAN STEREOTYPES.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller. (HarperCo